Facebook Introduces Accessibility Toolkit
Facebook formed its accessibility engineering team in 2011 to ensure that vision-impaired users had the best possible experience on the social network.
Facebook formed its accessibility engineering team in 2011 with an eye toward ensuring that vision-impaired users had the best possible experience on the social network, and the company is now sharing its methodology.
Project manager Jeffrey Wieland introduced Facebook’s Accessibility Toolkit in a post on its engineering blog, with an eye toward enabling developers to improve accessibility in their products.
Wieland outlined the sections of the social network’s Accessibility Toolkit:
- Component library: One of our first steps toward increasing accessibility was to incorporate assistive technology compatibility into the components used across the Web.
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